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After my rant last April about KFC's latest contribution to the world of fat food, grilled bacon in cheese sandwiched between two fried chicken breasts called the 'Double Down,' today I find myself congratulating KFC. Oh, don't get me wrong, the company has not decided to sell out to the health nuts...

A discovery with the potential to leap-frog many of today's technologies won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics
today. Many scientists tried to accomplish it, but it was
two Russian-born quantum physicists, now working together in Britain, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who achieved what was thought by many to be impossible: the separation of graphene from graphite.

Even though the body isn't cold just yet, a few new start-ups are
showing some real moxy in attempting to become the successors of Digg,
once the preeminent social bookmarking service. While Old Dogg is doing a
full frontal attack (see "Social Media News Service On A Shoestring Introduces Old Dogg With New Tricks") - SERPd.com
is a new platform that focuses on stories that serve the search engine
optimization (SEO), Internet marketing and social media communities.

Sometimes a design really knocks you out,
and you wonder at the capability of the human mind to conceive it and
create it in such a way that it serves our need to utilize renewable
resources, our need for beauty and wonder, and the need to create safe
refuge for the world's wildlife. The GEOtube, a plan for the city of Dubai by California architectural firm Faulders Studio, will be such a wonder.

Instead of trying to identifying the culprits of that poop on the grass,
dog poop is actually a welcome sight to the residents of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, who are happily participating in the Park Spark Project.
The objective of the project is to turn dog poop into methane gas and
use it for energy. A relatively small amount of dog poop is already
lighting one of the city's lamps - an eternal light from the power of
dog poop.

"You have brought many people into this world who can change it," reads one of the congratulatory notes to Professor Robert G Edwards, the British biologist who today won the 2010 Nobel Prize In Physiology or Medicine for his seminal work onin vitro fertilization (IVF). IVF is used to treat infertility, a medical condition which affects more than 10 percent of couples worldwide.

Touchscreen devices like Apple's popular iPad won't work well when wearing gloves because the screen responds to the electric charge of the user's fingers. Touch Gloves from Alta address that issue, keeping your fingers warm when using iPads and other tablets outdoors in cold weather.

Home videos have served as the premise for TV games shows. Police
officers use secret video tapings for surveillance which can later be
presented as evidence in a court of law. YouTube allows anyone with a
camera to become filmmakers. Video taping in movies such as "Blair
Witch Project" and "Cloverfield" actually made the video camera a cast
member in their features. In turn, social media opened up channels to
share videos via social networking sites globally.

Spaniard Rafael Nadal and American Venus Williams are two
of the biggest grunters in professional tennis. Grunting seems to come
naturally to tennis players because it acts as a form of tension release
when they are physically working hard. But recently published research
examined the effects of grunting on the opponents of the grunters in a
controlled setting.

The paradox of the first decade of the 21st Century is what started out
as the 'shiny new thing' - built on its allure and prestige of being
exclusive - is now hinged on an 'open door policy.' Human nature
defines us by "tribe" - where we feel most comfortable, right, wrong or
indifferent by 'our own kind.' However from "Harvard Students" to "Ivy
League Schools" to "those with an .edu email address" to the "world at large" -
within short order, Mark Zuckerberg transformed his original exclusive
Facebook tribe into a true melting pot of peoples.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary of Ig Nobel Awards on September 30 at Harvard University, Improbable Research granted 10 Ig
Awards to some of the most hilarious scientific studies you will ever
hear about. They are laughable, but then they make you think, which is
the main objective of the Ig Nobels. So, laugh and then think as you read about these winning discoveries.

Worms on Facebook are becoming almost as ubiquitous as the site itself.
With so many Facebook pages on the network today, and with everyone
trying to get their pages additional "LIKES," it's wise in general to
stay away from any page with "Shocking" in its title - let alone, if its
followed by "This girl killed herself after her Dad posted this photo."

The new UV light toothbrush sterilizer case from Japan Trust technology (JTT) is powered through a USB connection or by two AA batteries, allowing germophobes to wipe out 99.9% of the bacteria infesting their toothbrushes anywhere, anytime.

Milk helps advance weight loss? That's a surprise to most of us,
because many of the most popular diet programs exclude or minimize dairy
products as part of their regimes. A two-year study shows not only
that milk drinkers lose more weight, but that Vitamin D has other health
benefits besides preventing skin cancer.

Edyeglass technology hasn't advance very much since the 19th century... until now. TruFocals, soon to be re-branded Superfocus,
are the coolest things in prescription eyeglasses since Benjamin
Franklin made his own. In fact, they are designed just like Franklin's
glasses.